Visiting All Routes of a Web Server
Explore how to utilize the gorilla/mux Walk function to systematically visit all registered routes in a Go web server. Understand how this method helps verify route registration, supported HTTP methods, and route parameters to ensure server correctness. Gain familiarity with a practical example using empty handlers and learn to interpret route details from the output.
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The gorilla/mux package offers a Walk function that can be used for visiting all the registered routes of a router—this can be very handy when we want to make sure that every route is registered and is working.
Coding example
The code of walkAll.go, which contains lots of empty handler functions because its purpose is not to test handling functions but to visit them, is as follows (nothing prohibits us from using the same ...